After 10 weeks of inpatient nursing care, the nurse instructs the male client about ambulatory wound care; the client wants to know the estimated length of treatment. Which does the nurse include in client teaching?
1. The defensive stage begins about 4 days after injury.
2. Maturation of the ulcer frequently takes a year or more.
3. The inflammatory stage lasts approximately 4 to 6 days.
4. Reconstruction, the final stages of healing, lasts 3 weeks.
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3. The inflammatory phase of wound healing begins with the injury and, for normal healing, lasts 4 to 6 days. In that time, bleeding stops, regional blood flow increases, and white blood cells arrive at the scene to remove wound debris. After the inflam-matory phase, the proliferative phase provides wound strength with collagen synthe-sis. Finally, in the remodeling phase, wound healing continues for up to 1 year during which scar tissue remodels for wound strength.
1, 2, and 4. Wound healing does not involve a defensive, maturation, or reconstruc-tive
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